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SAUK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

MEETING NOTICE/AGENDA

COMMITTEE:         HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

DATE:                       Monday, October 9, 2023                             TIME: 4 P.M.

PLACE:                     County Board Room 326A, West Square Building, Baraboo, WI  53913

A quorum may be present consisting of members of the Aging & Disability Resource Center and Veterans Service Office Committee; Board of Health; Economic Development Committee; Executive & Legislative Committee; Extension Education, Arts & Culture Committee; Finance Committee; Health Care Center Board of Trustees; Highway Committee; Human Services Board; Land Resources and Environment Committee; Law Enforcement & Judiciary Committee; Personnel & Insurance Committee and Property Committee.  No governing body will exercise any responsibilities, authority, or duties except for the Human Services Board.  It is possible that a quorum on county board members will be at this meeting to gather information about a subject over which they have decision-making responsibility.  This constitutes a meeting of the County Board pursuant to State ex rel. Badke v. Greendale Village Board, 173 Wis. 2d 553, 294 n.w.2d 408 (1993), and must be noticed as such, although the County Board will not take any formal actions at this meeting.  It is also possible that there may be quorums of other County Board Committees present, although those committees will not take any formal action at this meeting.

REASON FOR MEETING:                            REGULAR

SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION:

1.             Call to Order and Certify Compliance with Open Meeting Law

2.             Adopt Agenda

3.             Approve Minutes of Previous Meeting

4.             Public Comment

5.             Communications/Director’s Report

a. Board Materials

6.             Business Items

a. Discussion and Action to Approve Monthly Vouchers

b. Accounts Receivable Report

c. Discussion and Action to Approve Collection Requests

d. Monthly Reports

7.             Department Updates

a.     2024 Budget Presentation

b.     Discuss Committee on Consolidation of Committees

8.             Next Meeting

9.             Adjournment

COPIES TO:

Patricia Rego                                      James Bowers                                       Co. Clerk              
Valerie McAuliffe                               Cliff Thompson
Joan Fordham                                     
Joel Chrisler                                        Jessica Mijal
Jake Roxen                                          Stephanie Box
Delmar Scanlon                                  

DATE NOTICE MAILED:               October 4, 2023
PREPARED BY:                              Human Services

 

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PDF icon Human Services Board Minutes 10/9/2023 (110 KB)

MINUTES
SAUK COUNTY BOARD OF HUMAN SERVICES

Meeting:       October 9, 2023, 4 p.m., County Board Room 326A, West Square Building, Baraboo, WI

Chair, Patricia Rego called the meeting to order and certified compliance with the Open Meeting Law at 4 p.m.

PRESENT:  Patricia Rego, James Bowers, Joan Fordham, Cliff Thompson, Delmar Scanlon, Jake Roxen, Joel Chrisler; EXCUSED:  Valerie McAuliffe; ABSENT:  None.

Others Present:  Jessica Mijal, Stephanie Box, Lori Dee

Motion by James Bowers, seconded by Delmar Scanlon, to adopt agenda with the change of removing Department Updates item b. Discuss Committee on Consolidation of Committees.  Motion carried.

Jake Roxen arrived at 4:01 p.m.

Motion by Joan Fordham, seconded by James Bowers, to approve the minutes for the previous Human Services Board meeting held on September 11, 2023.  Motion carried.

Public Comment:

None

Communications/Director’s Report: 

a. Board Materials:  Distributed electronically.  Jessica Mijal indicated being in the final stages of the compensation and classification study, which has been incorporated into the budget, and now are in the appeal process.  Appeals were due to supervisors last Friday; supervisors will be forwarding to Human Resources by the end of this week.  The all-staff day was held at Culver Community Park in Sauk City.  It was a nice day with guest speakers in the morning and activities in the afternoon.  The new Community Support Program Manager, Russell Girard, started in late September.  Mindy Mattson’s last day was last Friday, and Derek Olsen has been promoted to Youth Justice Supervisor.  Jessica indicated she was asked to give a presentation at the Sauk County Institute of Leadership.  Rapid Rehousing requests are up since the Federal funding ended.  Contracting crisis coverage will start with Northwest Connections on 1/1/2024.  Northwest Connections will be coming to the crisis stakeholder meeting to start the transition.  Justice Diversion and Support (JDS) is being implemented in AVATAR.  The ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) tool is being set up in AVATAR.

Business Items:

a. Discussion and Action to Approve Monthly Vouchers:  Distributed electronically.  Stephanie Box reviewed the Monthly Voucher Report.  Motion by Cliff Thompson, seconded by Delmar Scanlon, to approve monthly vouchers for $3,241,266.25.  Motion carried.  

b. Accounts Receivable Report:  Distributed electronically.  Stephanie Box reviewed the Accounts Receivable Report for August 2023.  Have sent 60 accounts to Credit Management for $125,584.89 and 60 accounts to State Debt Collections for $67,567.13.  Revenues received to date from:  Credit Management $4,137.09; State Debt Collections $14,834.30, and TRIP $19,508.57.  No hardships have been authorized to date.

c. Discussion and Action to Approve Collection Requests:  Motion by Jake Roxen, seconded by Joel Chrisler, to approve collection requests of sending 2 accounts for $1,411.70 to State Debt Collections and 10 accounts for $2,755.10 to Credit Management Control.  Motion carried.

d. Monthly Reports:  Distributed electronically.  Stephanie Box reviewed the August 2023 Volatile Line report.  Stephanie reported still looking to be unfavorable.  Inpatient is much higher than the projected trend/budget.  Detox, residential, institutions, alternate care placements have increased.  Discussed at times children cannot remain safely in their home which results in an alternate care placement.

Department Updates:

a. 2024 Budget Presentation:  Stephanie Box reviewed the documents committee members received:  Line Items-Oversight, Program Review, Budget Highlights, Program Cost sheet, and Capital Outlay.  Stephanie indicated the Outlay included leasing some vehicles.  Stephanie gave a PowerPoint budget presentation.  The budget request is for $33,869,362.  Stephanie reviewed different funding sources besides levy.  Stephanie indicated the implementation of the job study was the biggest increase in the 2024 budget.  The job study money was set aside for implementation in 2024.  We lost the Wagner Fund donation this year as the family went in a different direction; there is a small amount left to use.  Jessica Mijal indicated the State of Wisconsin only provides 21% funding for mandated services.

b. Discuss Committee on Consolidation of Committees:  No discussion.

Next Meeting: 

The next meeting of the Sauk County Human Services Board will be November 13, 2023, at 4 p.m. in the County Board Room 326A.   

Motion by James Bowers, seconded by Jake Roxen, to adjourn at 4:41p.m.  Motion carried.